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Ende
Ende
Native to	Indonesia
Region	central Flores
Native speakers	110,000 (2009)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central–Eastern Sumba–Flores Western Flores Central Flores Ende; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Lontara script (Lota Ende variant)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	end
Glottolog	ende1246
	Ende
	Coordinates: 8°43′S 121°34′E / 8.71°S 121.56°E

Ende is an Austronesian language spoken in the central part of Flores, one of the Lesser Sunda Islands in the eastern half of Indonesia.^[2] It belongs to the Central Flores subgroup.^[3]

Phonology

Consonants^[2]
		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n		ŋ ⟨ng⟩
Plosive	voiceless	p	t		k	ʔ ⟨'⟩
	voiced	b	d		ɡ
	prenasalized	ᵐb ⟨mb⟩	ⁿd ⟨nd⟩		ᵑɡ ⟨ngg⟩
	implosive	ɓ ⟨bh⟩	ɗ ⟨dh⟩
Affricate				d͡ʒ ⟨j⟩
Fricative		f	s		ɣ ⟨gh⟩	(h)
Trill			r
Lateral			l
Approximant		w	ɹ ⟨rh⟩

Like all Central Flores languages, Ende has a highly isolating structure.^[4]

^ Ende at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019)
^ ^a ^b McDonnell, Bradley (2009). "A Preliminary Description of Ende Phonology" (PDF). Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society. 2: 195–226.
^ Elias, Alexander (2019). Lio and the Central Flores languages (M.A. thesis). Leiden University. hdl:1887/69452.
^ Elias, Alexander (2020). "Are the Central Flores languages really typologically unusual?". Berkeley: University of California.

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